Quotes with memories

  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
  • This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
  • Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

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  • Marcel Proust That translucent alabaster of our memories.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • W. Lather Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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  • Andy Goldsworthy A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • John Irving A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Buddy Valastro Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Creditors have better memories than debtors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • E. M. Forster Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Adrienne Rich Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Walter Benjamin Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ben Carson Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
    Laura Swenson
     
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  • Primo Levi Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernie Parent I feel bad about the whole thing but all good things must come to an end sometime. I've got many pleasant memories, especially those two Stanley Cups.
    Quoted in Kevin Shea, One on One with Bernie Parent, Legends of Hockey.net
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bryan Ferry I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Adam Duritz If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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